BA3 students getting ready

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The inspiration behind my current project lies in industrial structures situated on the outskirts of towns and cities.  Referred to as ‘Edgelands’, these are places which tend to be overlooked as we don’t come into prolonged contact with them on a day to day basis.

BA3 students build up to their end of course exhibition.

The BA3 Ceramics & Jewellery  students are coming to the end of their course. They are completing their final work and getting ready for the show and New designers in London. Here are just a small selection of the work that will be on show.

http://www.polianabandeira.com/home/work

Tom Fisher soda fired bottles and sculptures

Peter Bodenham Course tutor makes new work

Over the Easter Holidays The course tutor of BA Ceramics & Jewellery course at Coleg Sir Gar makes new work.

BA2 students put on a selling show as part of the closing of The Home for Orphaned Dishes

Its opening on the 18th May where the students will be trying to sell their work. Come and take a look

http://www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk/

Clay in May exhibition

A number of the 2nd year students have go together to take part in two shows in Carmarthen town this demonstrates a tremendous entrepreneurial spirit  The Oriel King street Gallery is from 2nd May until the 31st. 

http://www.kingstreetgallery.co.uk/

http://www.olwenthomas.com/

Hilery Coole

This vessel is part of a project inspired by the designs and fabrics of my parents 1950s home. I have a black and white photograph of  myself as a baby resting against a cushion that my mother and I  recall as being of a heavy, coarsely woven fabric in black, white, yellow and red stripes with a black and white footstep pattern. My mother sewed all the curtains and cushions for their first home from this material on a Singer Sewing Machine she bought from an auntie  
who had never used it. She still owns the Singer but sadly not the  cushions and curtains.

Addicted to Pinterest.com

Neglecting the blog in part is due to the fact that myself and the students have been using Pinterst.com as a way of exchanging images and info. If your interested search for Peter Bodenham ceramics and I have lots of art and design pin boards you might want to check out. Many of the students are linked to the page and have given me lots of insight into Jewellery.

Sorry for being off air but we are back

The term is rapidly coming to an end and crescendo as the shows are looming. Students are working for their BA shows and other years are working towards shows in Carmarthen town.

We've started to construct a new Soda Kiln at Carmarthenshire College using refractory castable cement. We plan to finish the build next week and start get some work through the following week. The project is also linked with the International Ceramics Festival -  ICF 2013. We plan to rebuild the same kiln and fire it at the festival as part of a research experiment to see how efficient the kiln will be in comparison with a similar design using different materials constructed by Jo Finch.

Last week we had an exciting open day which also doubled up as a creative mash up with an Iron poor, Raku firings, collective drawing on walls in the gallery etc. Here are is an image of clay skulls before they've been fired. I will try and post some images of the day as it was a great success. It made staff and students feel thats whats Art College is all about a collective creative exchange, fun and hard work and partying.

A number of this years graduating 2012 students joined an artists collective in Carmarthen on King street. This has also combined with an exciting move onto the high street into a great space. Its well worth a visit.

Ray Church

Sorry for the long silence. College has started over a month ago with a new intake of students. Lots of positive feed back from New designers, London in July and several students had sales followed up by group shows in August and September. In this Months Ceramics Review three students were featured in the journal Kristy, Val and Billie which is a great endorsement for the course.

leaning how to throw a pot!

http://vimeo.com/36070863

Today went to see Simon and Marcus of Freshwest design based just outside Tenby. They have a fab studio / workshop full of ideas in the making. We discussed ideas working in clay and working with the college.http://www.freshwest.co.uk/

Stan the dog and Pete Bodenham pots drying in the sun in St.Dogmaels.

http://www.artjewelryforum.org/

Makers who are interested in jewellery might want to keep looking at this site!

Chance favours the connected mind !

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html

Some of this years graduates have work in the Waterfront Gallery Summer Show 2012 in Milford Haven.  Opens on 21 July and continues until 1 September.

http://www.thewaterfrontgallery.co.uk/

http://www.ted.com/talks/eva_zeisel_on_the_playful_search_for_beauty.html

Cool maker who has been making for 70 years +

http://www.orielmyrddingallery.co.uk

http://www.naomatsunaga.com

Looking ahead there is an exciting show coming up at Oriel Myrthin Gallery 8 September - 3 November 2012.

Jerwood Makers Open selects five newly qualified makers from over 200 applicants within the field of Applied Arts.  Each of the winners is commissioned to realise their proposal and to feature in this, the Jerwood Makers Open exhibition, which tours the UK.

http://www.edenceramics.co.uk/

Eden is one of the leading makers who have come from the world of ceramics then moved into digital 3D printing. Something Matt and Carl at Cole Sir Gar have been teaching the Ceramic and Jewellery students and myself with some interesting results.